Trump won't stop falsely claiming Reagan lost Wisconsin

Trump speaking at NATO press conference.
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President Trump's most recent less-than-truth may just be willful ignorance at this point.

Trump keeps noting that he carried Wisconsin in the 2016 election, claiming he achieved a feat not even former President Ronald Reagan could. He made the false claim for a third time as he left the NATO summit Thursday, per The Washington Post: "One of the states we won — Wisconsin — I didn't realize this until fairly recently, that was the one state that Ronald Reagan didn't win when he ran the board his second time," Trump boasted. "He didn't win Wisconsin, and we won Wisconsin."

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.